Flying in for Inda Eaton’s Show
Fans and friends have been arriving on the South Fork since Friday for “Inda Eaton: Original Music Adventures,” a concert in three acts happening at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 8 p.m.
Ms. Eaton, a native of Wyoming who has recorded eight independent albums and performed around the world, is a regular in South Fork venues and toured extensively behind her last release, the acclaimed “Go West.” Saturday’s concert will feature the far-flung musicians who comprise the Springs resident’s band along with Eve Nelson, a Los Angeles-based composer, producer, and musician who formerly lived in Amagansett and served as producer of “Go West.”
Arlethia and Rose Lawler, who perform with MamaLee Rose and Friends; Heather Stewart and Leah Finkelstein, Los Angeles-based artists, and a special guest or two will complete what Ms. Eaton called an “eight-ring circus of joy.”
“Any bit of music is a story,” the artist said last week. “I don’t think we’re coming up with a new emotion per se, or uncovering new philosophical work, or that wanderlust is a new emotion, but it’s the era we’re in and the eclectic bunch of people who make this sound. This is a unique group that has connected, for the most part, on the East End.”
Initially, she said, the concert was divided into three acts for the benefit of the lighting director. “Then we got to thinking, every song in the world probably falls into three acts. We’re going to tell our version of that truth.”
“I never promise comedy,” Ms. Eaton said. “Just because life is what it is, it becomes that way. It’s the same thing I feel when I watch a Christopher Guest movie — reality is funnier than anything you could conjure.”
Ms. Nelson, whose career brought her to California several years ago, said that Ms. Eaton “keeps it real for me. I’m in an industry where I’m constantly doing this and that for some TV show or artist, and it’s all wonderful, but for some reason when I’m playing with Inda, it gets me real.” Ms. Nelson, who arrived on the South Fork on Tuesday, added that “Inda’s music was a huge catalyst in getting me out to play live again.”
“Eve is not just a great player but a great friend, a brilliant production mind,” Ms. Eaton said. “We had so much fun making ‘Go West,’ ” which was largely recorded at MonkMusic Studios in East Hampton. “We mixed it ‘old school,’ in live-in, two two-week blocks at Eve’s studio in L.A. It’s my favorite way to work — the barbecue, the no-boundaries-between-today-and-tomorrow, fully immersed in the project.”
Saturday’s concert, she said, will evoke that experience, while also offering new music for a forthcoming release. “And our entire neighborhood of Barnes Landing is putting the band up,” she said. “People are giddy as if we are hosting somebody’s wedding. That’s what I live for.”
Tickets for “Inda Eaton: Original Music Adventures” cost $25 in advance, $30 on Saturday, and are available at the Bay Street box office or baystreet.org.